Habib Subah

Habib Subah
Sport country	Bahrain
Professional	2005/2006
Highest ranking	91 (2005/2006)
Best ranking finish	Last 32 (x1)

Habib Subah is a Bahraini former professional snooker player.

Career

Subah competed as an amateur in the early 2000s, before receiving a wildcard entry to the 2005 China Open. In his wildcard match, he defeated Jimmy Michie 5–3, making a break of 83 in the second frame; he was drawn against Stephen Lee, who whitewashed him 5–0 in the last 32.

This performance, the first and only last-32 finish of Subah's career, was enough for him to turn professional for the 2005/2006 season, becoming the first Bahraini professional snooker player.^[1]

During that season, he played six matches but lost all of them, the closest being a 4–5 defeat in the 2005 Malta Cup to Nick Dyson. Subah earned no prize money and as a result, ranked 91st at the season's conclusion, fell off the tour thereafter.

Subah competed in the wildcard round of the 2008 Bahrain Championship, losing 0–5 to Mark Davis, the 2010 World Open, where the retired Darren Morgan defeated him 3–1, and latterly Q-School in an attempt to regain his professional status. These efforts, despite a defeat of former world number two Tony Knowles in one event, proved unsuccessful.

Performance and rankings timeline

Tournament	2003/ 04	2004/ 05	2005/ 06	2008/ 09	2009/ 10	2010/ 11	2012/ 13
Ranking^{[nb 1]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 3]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}	^{[nb 2]}
Ranking tournaments
UK Championship	A	A	LQ	A	A	A	A
Welsh Open	A	A	LQ	A	A	A	A
World Open^{[nb 4]}	A	A	LQ	A	A	LQ	A
Players Tour Championship Final	Tournament Not Held					DNQ	DNQ
China Open	NH	1R	LQ	A	A	A	A
World Championship	LQ	A	LQ	A	A	A	A
Non-ranking tournaments
Six-red World Championship^{[nb 5]}	Tournament Not Held			RR	RR	RR	A
Former ranking tournaments
Malta Cup^{[nb 6]}	A	A	LQ	Tournament Not Held
Bahrain Championship	Tournament Not Held			WR	Tournament Not Held

Performance Table Legend
LQ	lost in the qualifying draw	#R	lost in the early rounds of the tournament (WR = Wildcard round, RR = Round robin)	QF	lost in the quarter-finals
SF	lost in the semi-finals	F	lost in the final	W	won the tournament
DNQ	did not qualify for the tournament	A	did not participate in the tournament	WD	withdrew from the tournament

NH / Not Held				event was not held
NR / Non-Ranking Event				event is/was no longer a ranking event
R / Ranking Event				event is/was a ranking event
MR / Minor-Ranking Event				event is/was a minor-ranking event

^ It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f He was an amateur
^ New players on the Main Tour do not have a ranking
^ The event was called the LG Cup (2003/2004) and the Grand Prix (2004/2005-2009/2010)
^ The event was called the Six-red Snooker International (2008/2009) and the Six-red World Grand Prix (2009/2010)
^ The event was called the European Open (2003/2004)

Career finals

Amateur finals: 2 (1 title)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score
Winner	1.	2015	Bahrain Amateur Championship	Ahmed Janahi	5–3
Runner-up	1.	2022	IBSF World 6-Reds Snooker Championship	Shrikrishna Suryanarayanan	1–5

References

^ "CueTracker - Players from Bahrain - Snooker Results & Statistics Database".

[2] It shows the ranking at the beginning of the season

[AMA-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f He was an amateur

[UR-4] New players on the Main Tour do not have a ranking

[5] The event was called the LG Cup (2003/2004) and the Grand Prix (2004/2005-2009/2010)

[6] The event was called the Six-red Snooker International (2008/2009) and the Six-red World Grand Prix (2009/2010)

[7] The event was called the European Open (2003/2004)

[1] "CueTracker - Players from Bahrain - Snooker Results & Statistics Database".

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